Weekend reading roundup

[nanila]

How did your weekend reading go? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it? (Reminder link to intended weekend reading post.)

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[nanila]

I didn't plan to read anything in particular, but because we went to a Landmark Trust property for the weekend, I ended up reading the log books, which go back to 1989. It's like mainlining thousands of microblogs, all on having a holiday in the house, with everyone vying to be most informative, most humorous, most puntastic, most aesthetically pleasing.

[quoththeravyn]

Woo. I finished reading the submitted stories. Including the one google drive was determined to only deal me 3 of the 5 pages of.

[nanila]

Wahey! Fantastic. Well done wresting the document from the clutches of the cloud.

[ironed_orchid]

I started, but still have a lot to do.

[nanila]

Starting is difficult. Good luck with continuing!

[fred_mouse]

I don't remember what I was planning on reading over the weekend, but as of Monday night I had finished three books since Friday, so I'm reasonably pleased! One Australian 1950s historical, one children's transformative work about Sherlock Holmes younger sister Enola, and one very strange little book about libraries (English translation; Japanese original).

[nanila]

Wow, congratulations! I like the sound of the transformative work.

[fred_mouse]

late reply, but have finally got that far back in my inbox...

The book was "The case of the bizarre bouquets" by Nancy Springer, and is book 3 of the series.

The Goodreads summary is: "Sherlock Holmes is missing his right hand man, Dr Watson. His much younger sister Enola is hiding from her older Holmes brothers, but knows the bizarre bouquet that arrives at the Watson residence spells death - convolvulus, hawthorn, and white poppies. She dons her most discerning disguise, and seeks the sender."

For a reader, I'm guessing late primary age, but for a listener, a much younger kid with a good attention span would probably love it.